Area career moves for December 8, 2014

Duane Musser, principal with MMS Consultants, Inc. and a Professional Landscape Architect, has been elected to the 2015 board of directors for the Greater Iowa City Home Builders Association. MMS Consultants is a civil engineering and land surveying firm based in Iowa City.

National Seating and Mobility

National Seating and Mobility has announced that it has acquired Home Health Depot’s custom seating and mobility division. HHD branches serve physicians, therapists, clients and caregivers from hospitals, rehabilitation facilities and clinics in Iowa and other states. The former HHD locations will begin immediate operations as NSM in Coralville and other areas.

Iowa City Area Development Group

Director Debi Durham, of the Iowa Economic Development Authority, recently awarded the Creative Corridor Alliance $50,000 for economic development initiatives in Iowa’s Creative Corridor. The Alliance, which includes economic development representatives from Johnson and Washington counties, as well as Kirkwood Community College and local utility partners, will use these funds to bolster planned programming in regional branding, existing industry and workforce development. Funding will be used to support programming that improves the communication of the distinctiveness of Iowa’s Creative Corridor and the strengths of the regional brand. Additionally, funding will be allocated to workforce attraction, recruitment and retention programs, including military and veteran workforce programs as well as existing industry initiatives designed to improve workplace culture. The award is being made to Kirkwood Community College, who will administer the funding and documentation. The contract will begin Jan. 1.

Innovative Software Engineering

Innovative Software Engineering, in Coralville, has been awarded a three-year contract with Rockwell Collins to provide software engineering services. The initial project in which ISE will engage is to implement a key component of a Link 16 exchange network engineered and supported by Rockwell Collins in Poway, California. Rockwell’s Link 16 system is used by the United States and many NATO nations to support the exchange of command and control information between Link 16-equipped assets. The system includes a track correlation engine which interfaces with the Link 16 system and performs analysis of local and remote network tracks to determine if they pass correlation thresholds. ISE will provide software engineering services to update the correlation engine to function properly on a new platform and to ensure seamless integration with other components of the Link 16 system.

New Pioneer Food Co-op

New Pioneer Food Co-op’s Cedar Rapids location will open their doors for business at 10 a.m. Wednesday at 3338 Center Point Road N.E. in Cedar Rapids. New Pi invites Co-op owners to join for a BYOS (Bring Your Own Scissors) group ribbon cutting at 9:45 a.m. Regular store hours, consistent with New Pi Iowa City and Coralville stores, will start Thursday from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily.